[osflash] Flash + Arduino - writing hardware drivers for RFID reader

[Alias™]

>      Thanks for your response, I assumed you were not planning a career as
> Mayor just yet, so guessed that you were just looking at if from an
> interesting use of technology perspective.

Heh - give it four years, we'll see where we are, maybe I will ;)

>
>      I was pondering things surrounding the RFID skimming element and
> although you cannot extract personal data, you could easily link the RFID to
> a person by the use of a webcam - how easy is that in Flash and catch them
> each time they go past.  From what I have read TfL, the world and his wife
> are doing this anyway

Yeah, British Airways is planning to do basically that, right?

>    ...the next step would be to ask someone like Mario Klingemann to work
> his bitmap magic and see if he can create an image recognition program that
> uses images from Facebook - obtained via API's to trawl for likenesses.  You
> could then tentatively identify the person and display their recent
> indescretions on a 20 foot high screen, etc...

Yes, although facial recognition is pretty CPU intensive - however
flash generally can utilise whatever CPU power you throw at it
(excepting multicore?) so I'm sure it'd be easy enough.

>      That's possibly more worrying than people hacking my card details as
> the only thing stopping you there (apart from the technology) is your
> adherence to Facebook's TOS

Yeah, British Airways is planning to do basically that, right?

>      Maybe you should do it as a social experiment :)

Or maybe you should? I'll happily give you the source if you want it!

That goes for anyone, BTW. I haven't released it yet, but am planning
to, shout me offlist if you're interested.

Alias